I'm calling BS on this. Math or it didn't happen. Looking at level 1-50 crafting, blacksmithing for example:
Rampager - Green Item
Main Hand › Marauder's Arm
Sells for 1,081 gil
Materials needed:
- x1 Fire Cluster
- x1 Earth Cluster
- x2 Darksteel Plate
- x6 Ice Crystal
- x4 Darksteel Nugget
- x12 Fire Crystal
- x12 Darksteel Ore
- x1 Spruce Lumber
- x3 Wind Crystal
- x3 Spruce Log
- x1 Rampager Head
- x1 Fire Cluster
- x1 Earth Cluster
- x1 Darksteel Ingot
- x1 Fire Cluster
- x2 Darksteel Nugget
- x6 Fire Crystal
- x6 Darksteel Ore
- x9 Coke
- x2 Darksteel Nugget
- x6 Fire Crystal
- x6 Darksteel Ore
You're doing all of this for less than 1081 Gil?
Cobalt Claws - White Item
Main Hand › Pugilist's Arm
Sells for 474 gil
- x6 Fire Shard
- x6 Earth Shard
- x1 Cobalt Ingot
- x5 Fire Shard
- x1 Iron Ore
- x2 Cobalt Ore
- x1 Brass Ingot
- x1 Wind Shard
- x2 Copper Ore
- x1 Zinc Ore
- x1 Cobalt Plate
- x5 Ice Shard
- x2 Cobalt Ingot
- x10 Fire Shard
- x2 Iron Ore
- x4 Cobalt Ore
- x1 Mahogany Lumber
- x5 Wind Shard
- x3 Mahogany Log
- x1 Horn Glue
- x3 Water Shard
- x2 Aldgoat Horn
You're doing all of this for less than 474 Gil?
Bronze Dagger - White Item
Main Hand › Gladiator's Arm
Sells for 8 gil
- x1 Fire Shard
- x1 Earth Shard
- x1 Bronze Ingot
- x1 Fire Shard
- x2 Copper Ore
- x1 Tin Ore
- x1 Maple Lumber
- x1 Wind Shard
- x3 Maple Log
- x1 Bone Chip
Selling the farmed materials is more gil than selling to a vendor here (still a net loss)...
Bronze Ingot
Costs 9 gil from a vendor
- x1 Fire Shard
- x2 Copper Ore
- x1 Tin Ore
At level 50 even if you're gathering all of your own material and not purchasing from the Market Ward your cost of farming the materials out-weighs the cost of the produced item sold to a vendor.
So rather than posting baseless opinions as "facts" lets see some math backing up that vendoring crafted goods puts money into the economy. And before you come at me with Craft-leves, this has already been discredited as a reliable source of adding money back into the economy several times, many pages ago.

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